"smexting" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007 August 5, “Smokers Turn To Their Phones As They’re Sent Outside”, in Orange Mobile:",
          "text": "In the two weeks following the smoking ban, texting across Orange’s network of 17 million mobile phone users shot up by 7.5 million texts, leading Orange to dub the trend ‘smexting’.",
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          "ref": "2007 August 6, Bobbie Johnson, “What the hell is smexting?,””, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Hence the arrival of a new “trend” for “smexting”: an increased number of text messages being sent because smokers (now forced to hang outside since the adoption of a smoking ban in England on July 1) are spending their time tapping away on their mobile phones.",
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          "ref": "2007 August 12, Bianca Bartz, “The SMS Phenomenon Caused By Smoking Bans”, in TrendHunter:",
          "text": "Ever since the public smoking ban was set in the UK, a record number of text messages have been sent, a phenomenon the Daily Mail has dubbed, \"smexting\".",
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          "ref": "2007 October 24, Jonathon Keats, “Jargon Watch: Bacn, Google Government, Smexting”, in Wired News:",
          "text": "The British mobile carrier Orange reported a surge in texting when the ban went into effect, but the company claims that people were smexting friends who might help them to quit.",
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          "ref": "2014, Nora Olsen, Maxine Wore Black, →ISBN:",
          "text": "\"Rule number four,\" I said, \"no texting.\" “No smexting?” Maxine asked. “No texting, period. That's where we get into trouble.”",
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          "ref": "2016 October 28, Misha Sesar, “We Asked Seniors What They Really Think About Millennials and Trump”, in Vice:",
          "text": "I feel bad for this young age, though. You're living in a world now that's tough. Cellphones, this phone, that phone, texting, smexting—every freakin' thing there is.",
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        "Sending SMS messages while smoking in the designated outdoor areas."
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        "(chiefly UK) Sending SMS messages while smoking in the designated outdoor areas."
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          "text": "\"Rule number four,\" I said, \"no texting.\" “No smexting?” Maxine asked. “No texting, period. That's where we get into trouble.”",
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